Senior Cloud & Edge Solutions Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Juneau (AK); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Equity awards

ESPP

Parental leave

Vacation PTO

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Solutions Architect to drive cloud and edge computing initiatives.

You will work directly with customers to design, architect, and implement transformative solutions, collaborating with sales, product teams, and partners to accelerate adoption. You will lead pre-sales engagements, own technical opportunities from discovery to deployment, and help shape the global product roadmap.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, or related engineering roles.
• Extensive customer-facing experience in cloud-related environments.
• Proven experience architecting IaaS solutions for customers.
• Certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Hands-on expertise in 3+ domains across Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, storage, AI, or IaC/CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with open-source tech like Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for diverse technical and business audiences.
• Proficiency in modern development practices, APIs, observability, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales support and own the technical sales opportunity from discovery through deployment.
• Collaborate with sales, product teams, professional services, marketing, and partners.
• Lead innovation in solutions and products, identify trends, and influence the product roadmap.
• Build technical expertise and leadership in Akamai Cloud/Linode to support business growth.

Skills

Pre-sales

Solutions architect

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Open-source

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Nginx

Apache

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Solutions Architect to drive cloud and edge computing initiatives.

You will work directly with customers to design, architect, and implement transformative solutions, collaborating with sales, product teams, and partners to accelerate adoption. You will lead pre-sales engagements, own technical opportunities from discovery to deployment, and help shape the global product roadmap.